Category: Scene News
I’ve been downloading and watching demos for many years now and they keep surprising me. I confess that I don’t watch them all, but I try to do it as often as my time allows me. With the month ending today, I decided to go back and check all the demos published during the month of February, primarily using CSDb…
Peter “JAC!” Dell has compiled a download package containing all programs and games presented during the Silly Venture 2k18, the 10th edition of the biggest retro scene gathering in Europe that happened last 2-4 November, in Poland. The convenient package contains four games, thirteen intros, fifteen graphics, six demos, five POKEY music files and another fifteen “bonus” files. It is…
Released last December (2018), Retro Virtual Machine 2.0 brings ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 emulation for Windows, Mac and Linux. To set apart from the many other excellent emulators, RVM 2.0 excels with its user interface delivering a faithful “retro” experience packed in a polished GUI. RVM works more like VMWare, Parallels or VirtualBox where you create virtual machines…
It is another freezing Canadian morning and there is nothing better to warm us up than good news (and a hot cup of coffee, of course!) As I was drinking that coffee and reading my emails, there was another update from Henrique Olifiers regarding the most-wanted (and waited) retro-computer project in the past few years! The ZX Spectrum Next keyboard…
We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!
David Taylor has been busy working on Jesse, an interesting project that reminds in Eliza, an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum (Wikipedia). David had contact me send me the following letter about his project, which I reproduce here to help him spread the awareness about…
2018 was a banner year for commercial C64 releases, none more surprising — or more well-received — than GIANTS Software’s hit game Farming Simulator. AJ and Joerg talk to GIANTS’ Martin Rabl about how the C64 port came to be and why retrogaming is such a big part of gaming culture. The interview starts 12 minutes into the podcast. Listen…
John Linville posted on RetroChallenge website an early call for potential participants of the upcoming Retro Challenge that will officially start next March. The basic rule of the contest is “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is the ultimate remedy for all of us, procrastinators! John asks for the participants to…
Early this morning, the Internet was taken by storm (!!!) when the first photo of an assembled ZX Spectrum showed up. Then I said in the Facebook thread that I would only believe it there was a hand typing on that machine, and sure enough, Mike Cadwallader not only posted an update but made it a video, not a photo!…
Already a tradition in the Retro Computer Enthusiast’s community, the 2019 edition of the 10-Liner Contest has started and will run through March 30th (6PM CET). Sponsored by Homeputerium, the contest challenge all BASIC programmers to come up with something amazing using only 10 lines of code. Since its establishiment eight years ago, the contest has received 312 10-Liners! The…
